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The political action committee known as End Citizens United recently announced four more endorsements for the coming midterm elections.

The first is former navy SEAL Josh Butner who will seek to defeat Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter for California’s District 50 seat. Hunter has been named to ECU’s “Big Money 20” list. This list denotes politicians who have been especially egregious in taking big money from giant corporate special interests and billionaires.

The next announced End Citizens United candidate is Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. She will make her challenge for Florida’s 26th District. If selected to run by Florida Democrats, Mucarsel-Powell will take on Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo in what promises to be an extremely competitive race.

ECU has also chosen to back Max Rose for the New York District 11 race. Rose will be the first post-9/11 combat veteran and Afghanistan War vet to seek office in a New York City district. The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Daniel M. Donovan.

Those candidates tend to be far-right, radical Republicans who are beholden to the corporate cash cows who helped them buy their way into public office. The founders of End Citizens United say the average American voter is increasingly being shoved aside – their interests ignored – as Senators and House members do the bidding of their campaign cash contributors.

End Citizens United has raised $35 million dollars without taking big donations from major corporations or private billionaire oligarchs. Rather, ECU has put together its PAC money the old-fashioned way – one small donation at a time from ordinary American citizens.

In fact, the average donation from more than 400,000 people who donated to ECU is just $14. To date, more than 3 million people have signed on as members of End Citizens United. Working together with individual hard-working Americans, getting big money out of politics is possible – and electing more Democrats to both houses of Congress is the just the first step.

End Citizens United is a political action group that hopes to reform the campaign finance system. It came into being March 1, 2015 after the Supreme Courts decision to treat corporations as people, allowing billionaires and other special interest groups to make unlimited donations to the campaigns of politicians to support their agendas.

End Citizens United points out that the donations are untraceable and results in no accountability or transparency. The organization also points out how it makes it possible for foreign entities to influence US elections, including the Russian meddling investigation, Chinese nationals donation of $1.3 million to a Jeb Bush super PAC through American Pacific International Capital and donations to a super PAC by a wealthy Mexican Entrepreneur. According to Hi-Tech Chronicle, there was 15 cases being investigated by the FEC (Federal Election Commission) at the beginning of the year of illegal foreign campaign spending.

The Hi-Tech Chronicle article entitled, “Russians Weren’t the Only Meddlers in the 2016 Election According to End Citizens United,” dated October 31, 2017, told of many measures proposed by Democrats to combat the effect of the Supreme Court ruling, such as the Disclose Act and the By the People reform package. The End Citizens United PAC (political action committee) works to support those Democrats in their attempt to reform and fix the campaign finance system. To combat the big money influence in political campaigns, End Citizens United raised $4 million during the first three months of the year with its 1.8 million donors contributing on average just $12 each. Tiffany Muller, the Executive Director of End Citizens United, said that it will probably raise $35 million before the 2018 elections from individuals who believes that the system is rigged against them and this is their way of fighting back.

On their website, End Citizens United describes itself as Democrats fighting for reform and states that it is just getting warmed up. It also states that it is proud to be funded by thousands of grassroots supporters from around the country, siting its grassroots activist as its greatest strength. Its mission statement expresses the strategy of electing those who champion campaign finance reform, passing state ballot measures, and making these issues part of the national conversation as a national priority. End Citizens United hopes to have an effect on all three branches of government in the effort to enact campaign finance reform to combat the political influences of big money.

Born March 9, 1976 in Venezuela, Thor Halvorssen became one of the most active persons who stand up for what they believed. He was one who took protecting human rights to the next level. In fact, Thor Halvorssen has accomplished many goals during his human rights activist career which many across the world are very appreciative of. Before becoming an activist, Thor attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied Political Science as well as History. After completing his course at the University, Mr. Halvorssen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.

As a result to receiving higher education, his knowledge containing the rights of humans expanded even more. After revealing some sensitive information about the government while working as Venezuelas drug czar, his father was tortured in a Caracas prison and shortly after that his mother was shot during an anti-Hugo Chavez demonstration. Thor has made it known, nationally, that he love people who are mostly dissidents and defectors that stir up trouble by challenging authoritarians and standing up against tyranny.

According to weeklystandard.com, Thor Halvorssen had Vaclav Havel serve as HRF’s chairman until he passed away in 2011. After Havel, Thor replaced him with Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and political activist. In 2012, Kasparov decided to participate in a protest pertaining to the guilty verdict of the Pussy Riot. The Pussy Riot entailed a Moscow punk band that was sentenced to two years in prison for singing an anti-Putin song which was a crime. While participating in the protest, Garry Kasparov was punched repeatedly by Russian Police. Thor Halvorssen had also experienced assault for the cause as well.

Mr. Thor Halvorssen has also done things to protect our children from illegal labor laws and much more.